10 stunning star clusters captured by NASA’s Hubble Telescope
Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA,/A. Sarajedini/F. Niederhofer
1. This densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210 is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) about 157,000 light-years from Earth.
Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA/A. Sarajedini/G. Piotto
2. Globular cluster NGC 6652 lies in our Milky Way galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius, just 30,000 light-years from Earth.
Photo Credit: NASA, ESA/ESA/Hubble/Roger Cohen (RU)
3. This glittering globular cluster Terzan 12 is also located towards the centre of our galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius.
Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA/A. Nota/G. De Marchi
4. Captured here is a portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with open cluster NGC 376 at the centre.
Photo Credit: NASA/ESA/P. Goudfrooij
5. 100 million-year-old NGC 1850 is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 light-years away from the Dorado constellation.
Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA/L. Girardi
6. Globular star cluster NGC 2203 is special as it contains stars that are roughly twice as massive as our Sun!
Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA/D. A Gouliermis
7. The stellar grouping is known as NGC 2040 located in one of the largest known star formation regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA
8. NGC 6611 is an open star cluster that formed about 5.5 million years ago in the well-known Eagle Nebula.
Photo Credit: AURA/STScI/NASA
9. Hodge 301 is a cluster of massive stars inside the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Photo Credit: NASA/ESA/H. Richer
10. NGC 6397 has the dimmest stars ever seen in any globular star cluster.
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